Name calling serious…..grow some. o my bad they dont sell any down town.

Its always to late when its gone. I tell people like u, no one thinks they need insurance either.

Why am I going to think you would understand this? I tried don’t worry life hasn’t passed you by completly….at least u know how to use a key pad on your device. “thats one up for you!

The Army didnt teach me that”.

Cry baby Out

These are our future leaders of the Regiment. Well look on the bright side, even you, have now added to the waste of time you claim we are. lol

Thanks

Good morning. Normally I agree with most of your comments, but I do slightly disagree with you on this topic. As a former solider, we did do some training, and a little discipline, but the training was no where near any International Standard.

What they did teach me was patience. I spent so much time waiting on our superiors, because they were so unorganized when it came to traning and certain things.

When you speak of social ills, the sad truth is that most of the guys who do need some discipline and structure, are never selected for the regiment.

I am not going to sit here and say the regiment is a waste of time, because I met many friends up there, however it’s not all that it’s cracked up to be. One good thing of late is that these guys get paid way better than we did in the late 90′s & early 2000′s.

I would say there would be better value for money if this was training for full time soldiers but this is an exercise that is just like recruit camp where it is done every year to replace people who have already been trained. If these trips where for full time soldiers they could further their training for an experienced soldier rather then teaching a new soldier the same thing they taught the last one. The kind of training they receive should also reflect what their roles are actually used for thus streamlining them to actually suit our needs.

The roles they play also show that the numbers of the soldiers we currently have enlisted exceed that of our actual use. A smaller better trained full time regiment would better suit our requirements then it does in our current form.

These young man and women may not meet your standard, but I can assure you that they meet International standards and this is why they are taken overseas to be trained in International territory, so that they can be up to International standard.

Its unfortunate that you don’t see the value of what it exactly does in helping our young man and women to have self worth, amongst several other qualities of life.